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    "id": 118630,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/118630/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Affey",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 381,
        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Affey",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to support this Motion. I want to congratulate the Minister and the staff at the Ministry of Lands for becoming very progressive Kenyans, and for being first among equals in the management of this Coalition Government. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as a Committee of this House, we were able to look at this policy and discuss it. We even went ahead and the Minister has given us a day’s workshop and my able Chairman has communicated the views of the Committee. I thank him for being faithful to the mandate we gave him as Members of the Committee. The issues I want to raise are brief and, perhaps, I just want to highlight some of the reasons why, indeed, I support this policy. First of all, this policy acknowledges that there were historical injustices that were committed in the country and that for us to recreate this country, we must first of all, squarely face some of these historical injustices that have happened. One of the critical injustices that I know and that, at least, the people I know from the north east do refer to all the time is what we call the “North Eastern Dilemma and the Garissa Dilemma.” Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this dilemma emanates from a historical perspective. We know that in that part of the country, at some stage of our life and in the history of this country, there was conflict; people there went to war and there was an insurgency and there was a threat in that part of the region going to Somalia. In order for the Government of the time to particularly protect River Tana, the boundary was extended into Garissa District. Today, as we speak, three kilometers into Garissa District along the River Tana is administered from the Coast Province. Therefore, if you have a farm in Garissa and you want to have a title deed, it means that you have to travel from Garissa to Coast Province on the other side to see the Lands Officer in Coast Province. For somebody who comes from the North Eastern Province, the papers are processed there. There was no time over the last 40 years even after we had settled that matter---"
}